Tab. 7008. 



TRBVESIA PALMATA. 



Native of the Eastern Himalaya, S,r. 



Nat. Ord. Avmaacem. 

 Genus Tuevksia, Visiani ; {Benth. et Hook.f. den. Pi. vol. i. p. 042.) 



Tkevesia palmata; fruticosa, aculeata, ramulis noveUis rufo-tomentotta et 

 setosia, foliis amplis lodge petiolatii adv. infra medium palmatim v. digitatim 



7-9-lobatis basi cordatis glabriuseulis lobis laneeolatis acuminatis serratis v. 

 lobulatU, petiolo sparse aculeato, paniculis amplis, bracteis cadueis, umbellis 

 multiradiatis. 



T. palmata, Visiani in Mem. Acad. Torin. Ser. 2, iv. 2fi2, rum Jr. ; Seem. Bi v. 

 Hed. p. 77 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burnt, vol. i. p. 539 ; Clarke in Ft. Brit. 

 Ind. vol. ii. p. 732; Boerlage in. Ann. Jard. Buiteuz. vol. vi. p. 108, t. xii. 

 f. 15. 



Gastonia palmata, Roxb. BZort. Bonrj. p. 33 ; Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 407 ; Lindl. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 894. 



Gilibertia palmata, DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 256. 



Hedera ferruginea & palmata, Wall. Cat. 4909 and 4910. in fort. 



Brassaiopsis conffuens, Seem. Ren. Ilcd. p. 18 (leaves only). 



This is one of the most conspicuous features of the 

 tropical jungles of the Central and Eastern Himalaya, 

 Assam and the hot humid regions of the Khasia Mountains 

 and Chittagong, where its slender stem crowned with 

 terminal whorls of spreading, broad, fan-shaped, long- 

 petioled leaves, rising above the herbaceous forest under- 

 growth, at once attracts attention. For the same reason 

 it is a very efficient aid in the representation of a tropical 

 region in a stove or heated house, where natural botanical 

 features rather than showy flowers are the objects desired. 

 It is widely distributed in India, from Central Nepal along 

 the lower regions of the Himalaya westwards to Sikkim, 

 Assam and the Khasia Mountains, and from thence south- 

 wards to Pegu. In the Malayan region it is represented 

 by T. sundaica and other species. 



J. G. Boerlage, working in the rich Malayan herbarium 

 at Buitenzorg (Java), has in the Annals of the Buitenzorg 

 Gardens, vol. vi. p. 97, revised the genus Trevesia and its 

 allies, which were in a state of great confusion, owing to 



AUGUST 1st, 1888. 



